{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,17]],"date-time":"2026-10-17T14:43:28Z","timestamp":1792248208550,"version":"4.4.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"African Journals Online (AJOL)","issue":"4","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Afr H. Sci."],"abstract":"<jats:p>Background: Halitosis is an important cause of impaired quality of life in adolescents. Little is known about the prevalence of self-reported halitosis in adolescents in Nigeria and the extent to which self-reported halitosis impairs their oral health related quality of life.\r\nObjectives: To determine the prevalence and impact of self-reported halitosis on the oral health related quality of life of adolescent students in a suburban community in Nigeria.\r\nMethods: An analytical cross-sectional study. Pre-tested self-administered pro-forma was used to obtain the adolescents\u2019 demographic data and their self-perception of halitosis. The Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) was used to assess the adolescents\u2019 OHRQoL. The Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the median OHIP-14 scores between adolescents who reported halitosis and those who did not. The level of significance was set at p &lt; 0.05. Ethics approval for this study was obtained from the Health Research and Ethics Committee of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.\r\nResults: A total of 361 adolescents aged 10 \u2013 19 years (mean age 14.1 \u00b1 1.79 years) took part in the study. Of these, 32.7% (n=118) had self-reported halitosis. The median OHIP-14 score among adolescents with self-reported halitosis was 3 (0-9) while those who did not report halitosis had a median OHIP-14 score of 0 (0 \u2013 5). This difference was statistically significant (p &lt; 0.0001).\r\nConclusion: Self-reported halitosis significantly impaired the oral health related quality of life of the adolescents.\r\nKeywords: Halitosis; oral health; quality of life; adolescent.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4314\/ahs.v20i4.62","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,18]],"date-time":"2020-12-18T10:54:54Z","timestamp":1608288894000},"page":"2044-9","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Self-reported halitosis and oral health related quality of life in adolescent students from a suburban community in Nigeria"],"prefix":"10.4314","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Omolola","family":"Alade","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ebenezer","family":"Ajoloko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aderonke","family":"Dedeke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Omolara","family":"Uti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Oyinkansola","family":"Sofola","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2895","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,16]]},"container-title":["African Health Sciences"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/ahs\/article\/download\/202375\/190836","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/ahs\/article\/download\/202375\/190836","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,18]],"date-time":"2020-12-18T10:54:55Z","timestamp":1608288895000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/ahs\/article\/view\/202375"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,16]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,17]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4314\/ahs.v20i4.62","relation":{},"ISSN":["1680-6905"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1680-6905","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,16]]}}}